Botticelli past and present / / edited by Ana Debenedetti, Caroline Elam.

• TeilnehmendeR: Debenedetti, Ana,; Elam, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 309 pages) :; illustrations

The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli's artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Ana Debenedetti, Victoria and Albert Museum -- Part 1: Botticelli in his own time -- Introduction -- Michelle O'Malley, Warburg Institute -- 1. Sandro Botticelli and the birth of modern portraiture -- Patrizia Zambrano, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale -- 2. Botticelli's Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli: a technical study -- Nicola Costaras, Victoria and Albert Museum and Clare Richardson, Courtauld Institute 3. Classicism and invention: Botticelli's mythologies in our time and their timePaul Holberton, independent scholar -- 4. Jacopo del Sellaio's adaptation of the Primavera -- Jerzy Miziołek, Museum of the University of Warsaw -- Part 2: The Botticelli effect -- Introduction -- Julius Bryant, Victoria and Albert Museum -- 5. Whigs and primitives: Dante and Botticelli in England from Jonathan Richardson to John Flaxman -- Mark Evans, Victoria and Albert Museum -- 6. Befriending Botticelli: psychology and connoisseurship at the fin de siècle -- Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex -- 7. A woman's touch, Michael Field, Botticelli and queer desireAnna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading -- Part 3: Botticelli between art history and connoisseurship -- Introduction -- Caroline Elam, Warburg Institute -- 8. Crowe and Cavalcaselle on Botticelli: new results -- Donata Levi, University of Udine -- 9. Why Botticelli? Aby Warburg's search for a new approach to Quattrocento Italian art -- Claudia Wedepohl, Warburg Institute -- 10. 'A Japanese Critic on Botticelli': fragmentation and universality in Yashiro's 1925 monograph -- Jonathan K. Nelson, Syracuse University, Florence -- 11. Jacques Mesnil's BotticelliMichel Hochmann, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (EPHE, PSL) -- Part 4: Botticelli now -- Introduction -- Stefan Weppelmann, Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien -- 12. Ninfa fluida (a post-scriptum) -- Georges Didi-Huberman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris -- 13. Into the abyss. On Salvador Dalì's Dream of Venus -- Riccardo Venturi, Académie de France, Villa Medici, Rome -- 14. Giving an edge to the beautiful line: Botticelli referenced in the works of contemporary artists to address issues of gender and global politics.